New Project Proposal - Solidity plugin for Intellij

[splix]

IntelliJ IDEA is second most popular IDE for JVM (have 44% share, after Eclipse 48%). Also it's popular on other platforms and have special versions for developers on Python, PHP, Ruby and C/C++. Many of ETC Dapp developers are using this IDE.

But currently it doesn't have a plugin for Solidity, check there https://plugins.jetbrains.com/search/index?search=solidity

I think it's important to create a basic plugin, for a minimal version it will be enough to have:

• syntax coloring for Solidity language
• calling an external Solc and getting ABI and bytecode for a file

ETC community & Dapp developers will appreciate if anyone will start this plugin. There're many open source examples of similar plugins. This is for Dart, for example: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins/tree/master/Dart

[ProphetDaniel]

Hi @splix. For Windows, enter the filetypes folder at .WebstormXXXX.X\config\filetypes and add the Solidity.xml file to it. If there is no filtetypes folder inside the config folder, create it.

I found this solution after reading this issue.

[federicobond]

I have begun working on this with help from the @rootstock team. Expect some updates on it soon. Send me an email if you want to know more.

[SerCeMan]

Hey!

I also started some work recently: https://github.com/SerCeMan/intellij-solidity

You can check it out here, it's mostly a basic syntax highlighting: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/idea/plugin/9475-intellij-solidity

[SerCeMan]

@federicobond Hopefully, this is a plugin you mentioned or else we have a third one :)

https://github.com/LogvinovLeon/intellij-solidity by @LogvinovLeon

[LogvinovLeon]

Yes. I started working on that a couple of days ago because I didn't find the previous ones. Why are they not published? I have implemented basic file type, file templates and an action for creating files. I have also started rewriting the grammar. It's almost finished, but still needs some work. Now I'm able to correctly parse some contracts except the ones with incomplete tuples. Implementing syntax highliting would be easy after that. But we should deifnitely merge our efforts and publish at least some basic version in a plugin repository.

[SerCeMan]

Both our plugins are published :) Moreover, on the same day.

[LogvinovLeon]

Are you waiting for approval?

[SerCeMan]

They are available

[LogvinovLeon]

Let's continue this discussion on gitter of your project

[LogvinovLeon]

To all folks visiting this issue: We merged our efforts. The repository was moved here. We would continue working on that, but initial version is already released. I have deleted my plugin from JetBrains repository, so that noone would be confused.

[pdaya]

Awesome, thanks guys! Will try it out in a few days.

[federicobond]

Cool, I was just starting to work on something more ambitious. I would like to implement the interfaces to support automated refactoring and code intelligence. Happy to contribute to your plugin!

[LogvinovLeon]

I just invited you to the organization @federicobond

[ghost]

Hey guys, I'm an eclipse guy and new to IntelliJ but I just installed it and imported the IntelliJ-Solidity plugin but have no idea how to associate it to a project or even what kind of project I should be creating. Any ideas?

[SerCeMan]

Hey, @biguls!

You don't need any special kind of project. The .sol file association should be created automatically. If that didn't happen, for example, if you tried to associate *.sol with anything else, you will need to create it manually.

[Rakesh-Saini]

It shows "Exception in unknown plugin" !!

[SerCeMan]

Hey, @Rakesh-Saini!

Can you describe the problem in more details?

[Rakesh-Saini]

Well am totally new to solidity..(just a beginner) this error message is shown in the IDE fatal errors window "update failed for AnAction with ID=RunConfiguration"

[SerCeMan]

@Rakesh-Saini, it's very hard to say what's happened given only this message. It seems like the problem you're experiencing might not be related to the plugin.